January 16th, 2014

On Wednesday, we finished our time in Chennai. We had such a blessed time ministering there and are thankful for all the people we came into contact with. We completed our time teaching at the Bible College and visiting the last few churches. In addition, we were able to visit the slum church. Thank you for your prayers and support and the people were so blessed by the various tools, games, cards, and materials. We look forward to how the Lord will use all these things for His glory.

Today, we are on our way to Andhra Pradesh where we will be serving for the next few days. There will once again be a full schedule, so we’d ask for you to pray for strength and safety as we travel. We will be visiting various churches, holding a Pastors Conference, doing outreaches in the villages and lastly….attending our first Indian wedding! We’re excited about this next stage and what the Lord has for us.

We will also most likely be out of service and not able to send updates over the next few days, but as soon as we can we will. We’d also like to ask for prayer that the Lord would keep us from illness as a couple of us have had sore throats…maybe we’ve been talking too much :). It seems like the mosquitoes seem to like Stephen the most, so you can pray for him as well.

Thank you all so much for the prayers and continue to lift us up. Pray for souls to hear the gospel and be saved at the outreaches. Pray for the pastors to be encouraged during the conference. Pray for us to be an encouragement to all the believers we meet and last of all that we’d each be led and filled with His Spirit and strengthened by His grace.